The Permanent Government's conference on digital transformation
Delegates attend the conference at the Hung Yen’s bridge point
Speaking at the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that the country prioritizes growth, so it is necessary to renew old growth drivers including consumption, investment and export; besides, boosting new growth drivers including digital economy, green economy, circular economy, sharing economy, knowledgable-based economy. Digital transformation is an inevitable trend, a mandatory requirement, an irreversible process on the international and national aspect, and each ministries, branches, and local levels. If digital transformation is expected to be strong, fast, and effective, there is a special and decisive role of leaders at all levels, sectors, and localities. Therefore, it is necessary to raise awareness, identify goals and perspectives for digital transformation development, especially the tasks and solutions that are close to reality, "right, successful", and feasible, especially the implementation ensuring the efficiency, reducing time and costs, but bringing the highest efficiency. Ministries, branches and localities discussed to clarify and unify thinking, methodology and approaches to act together, further strongly promote the national digital transformation process, develop a digital Government, digital economy, digital society.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized the spirit of comprehensive digital transformation with the active participation and companionship of the entire political system, people, businesses, and the cooperation and support of the friends and international partners, focusing on building digital infrastructure, perfecting digital institutions, and training digital human resources to "catch up, move forward and surpass".
According to a report from the Ministry of Information and Communications, the national digital transformation index (DTI) has increased steadily over the years, reaching 0.71 points by 2022; component indexes on digital Government, digital economy and digital society maintain high growth rates of 45% - 55%. The handling of administrative procedures and the provision of online public services to serve people and businesses have had a breakthrough growth, to date, reaching 55%, seeing an increase of 5 times compared to the period before 2020. The proportion of digital economy in Vietnam's GDP in 2023 reached 16.5% and by June 2024 it is 18.5%. Platforms and systems serving management and administration have been applied, contributing to increasing the rate of work documents at the ministerial level processed in the network environment to 89.35%. In the first 6 months of 2024, there are 533 million transactions through the national data sharing and integration platform. By December 2023, the Ministry of Public Security has issued over 84.7 million chip-embedded citizen identification cards; 45.4 million electronic identity accounts have been activated. VNeID application is being improved day by day, integrating additional utilities to serve people such as: Electronic health book; driving license; e-wallet, declaration, registration, tax payment; social insurance number information and many other utilities...
Speaking to delegates attending the conference at the Hung Yen’s bridge point, Mr. Nguyen Duy Hung, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the Department of Information and Communications to preside and coordinate with departments, branches, localities and units to review and evaluate the achieved and unachieved results, reasons, and propose solutions to well perform assigned tasks, preside over and coordinate in the Provincial Digital Transformation Plan 2024, at the same time advise the province in directing and urging. Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duy Hung noted such issues as: bolster online public services towards synchronous implementation of digitalization, full-process online public services and online payments; promote the exchange and resolution of electronic work records; deploy applications and effectively exploit national digital platforms; focus on urging and accelerating the progress and quality of smart urban construction in Hung Yen city and My Hao town; focus on propagandizing and boosting non-cash payments and transactions...
